Take vs Trap - What's the difference?
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To get or put something into one's or someone's possession or control.
#To grasp with the hands.
#To pick up and move to oneself.
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#To lead; to conduct.
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#*:They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!
#To choose.
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#*(Bible), 1 (w) xiv 42
#*:Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken .
#To accept.
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#(lb) To gain a position by force.
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#To ingest medicine, drugs, etc.
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#*:To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric. He was, a year ago, just fifty-nine. Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric. Already he is gone. He was cut off by pneumonia, or apoplexy, last Christmas.
#To capture using a photographic camera.
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#To observe; to gather information on.
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#(lb) To form a likeness of; to copy; to depict.
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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
#(lb) To deliver, give (something); to entrust.
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#*:for thy loue I haue lefte my countrey / And sythe ye shalle departe oute of this world / leue me somme token of yours that I may thynke on you / Ioseph said that wille I doo ful gladly / Now brynge me your sheld that I toke yow whanne ye went in to bataille ageynst kyng Tolleme
#*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XXIII:
#*:Jesus perceaved there wylynes, and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrytes? lett me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.
(lb) To have or change a state of mind or body.
#(lb) To endure or cope with.
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# To assume or interpret to be.
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#(lb) To enroll (in a class, or a course of study).
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#(lb) To participate in, undergo, or experience.
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#(lb) To habituate to or gain competency at a task.
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#(lb) To perform or undertake, for example, a task.
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, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
#(lb) To experience or feel, for example, offence.
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, chapter=20 #(lb) To go.
#*2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge, 2008, p.59:
#*:Nicholas then took himself to Avignon where in August 1330 he formally renounced his claim to the papacy.
(lb) To require or limit.
#(lb) To support or carry without failing or breaking.
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#(lb) To need, require.
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, title= #(lb) To last or expend [an amount of time].
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To decide or to act.
#(lb) To not swing at a pitch.
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#(lb) To tighten (take up) a belaying rope. Often used imperatively.
#(lb) To catch the ball; especially for the wicket-keeper to catch the ball after the batsman has missed or edged it.
#To be the player who performs (a free kick, etc.).
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#Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear.
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(lb) To have sex with.
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(lb) To fight or attempt to fight somebody. (See also take on.)
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(lb) To stick, persist, thrive or remain.
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*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
(lb) To use.
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(lb) To decide, react, or interact.
# To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
#*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#*:Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, / And hint he writ it, if the thing should take .
#(lb) To consider as an instance or example.
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#To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
#*(Bible), (w) vi.25:
#*:Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
#*(William Wake) (1657-1737)
#*:Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience.
#*(Thomas Moore) (1779-1852)
#*:I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, — a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, — which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions.
#To bear without ill humour or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure.
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#To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept.
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#*:I take thee at thy word.
#To draw; to deduce; to derive.
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#*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
#*:The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery.
#To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
#*(Bible), (w) xxxv.31:
#*:Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer.
#*(Bible), v.10:
#*:Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore.
# To understand or interpret.
An act of taking.
Something that is taken; a haul.
A profit, reward, bribe, illegal payoff or unethical kickback.
An interpretation or view; perspective.
(film) An attempt to record a scene.
(rugby) A catch.
(acting) A facial gesture in response to an event.
(cricket) A catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper.
(printing) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
* Shakespeare
A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball; the game of trapball itself.
Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
* 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
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(slang) A person's mouth.
(in the plural) belongings
* 1870 , , Running for Governor ,
(slang) cubicle (in a public toilet)
(sports) Short for trapshooting.
(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
(Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
* 1996 , Judith Kapferer, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice ,
* 2006 , Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically ,
(US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
(slang, informal, pejorative) A person with male genitalia who can be mistaken for a female; a convincing transvestite or transwoman.
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A kind of movable stepladder.
To physically , to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
* Dryden
To provide with a trap.
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
To leave suddenly, to flee.
(US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English) (slang) To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.
(computing) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; said especially of horses.
* Spenser
* Tennyson
Take is a related term of trap.
As nouns the difference between take and trap
is that take is a fog or mist while trap is stair, step.take
English
Verb
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Cronies and capitols, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
Code blue, passage=Time was it took a war to close a financial exchange. Now all it needs is a glitch in technology. On August 26th trading on Eurex, the main German derivatives exchange, opened as usual; 20 minutes later it shut down for about an hour. Four days earlier the shares of every company listed on NASDAQ, an American stock exchange, ceased trading for three hours.}}
Usage notes
In informal speech, especially in certain sociolects, (took) is sometimes replaced by the proscribed form (taked).Quotations
* 1611 — (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among usSynonyms
* (to grasp with the hands) grab, grasp, grip * (sense, to get into one's possession) confiscate, seize * capture, conquer, seize * (to have sex with) have * get * ingest * receive * swallowAntonyms
* (to accept) give * (to carry) bring * dropDerived terms
* foretake * out-take * take aback * take a bath * take a bite * take a bow * take a breather * take a chance * take a chill pill * take a dive * take a dump * take a gamble * take a look * take a pew * take a picture * take a risk * take a run at * take a spill * take a spin * take a tumble * take action * take advantage * take after * take against * take along * take amiss * take apart * take around * take aside * take away * take back * take charge * take comfort * take cover * take down * take exception to * take five * take flight * take for a spin * take for granted * take form * take guard * take hold * take-home pay * take in * take it as it comes * take it away * take it easy * take it like a man * take it on the chin * take it out on * take off the table * take off * take offence * take offense * take on * take one's rest * take one's time * take oneself off * take out * take over * take part * take place * take pleasure * take pride * take someone prisoner * take round * take shape * take sides * take silk * takest * take stock * take that * take the biscuit * take the cake * take the fall * take the mick * take the mickey * take the piss * take the trouble * take through * take time * take to extremes * take to heart * take to one side * take to one's bed * take to one's heels * take to * take to the streets * take turns * take umbrage * take up for * take up with * take up * take upon * take vows * take with a pinch of salt * you can't take it with you See also'' taken''' ''and'' ' takingNoun
(en noun)- He wants half of the take if he helps with the job.
- The mayor is on the take .
- What’s your take on this issue, Fred?
- It’s a take .
- Act seven, scene three, take two.
- I did a take when I saw the new car in the driveway.
Derived terms
* double take * give and take * on the take * take two * take-or-paySee also
These need to be checked and put in the section for the noun or verb senses as appropriate * bytake * intake * mistake * outtake * overtake * spit take * takings, taking * uptakeStatistics
*trap
English
(wikipedia trap)Etymology 1
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) and possibly Albanian (m) "raft, channel, path". Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". (etyl) are ultimately borrowings from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)- I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
- Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
- God and your majesty / Protect mine innocence, or I fall into / The trap is laid for me!
- Close the trap , would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
- They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap .
- The two women looked down the alley. At the end of the Bottoms a man stood in a sort of old-fashioned trap , bending over bundles of cream-coloured stuff; while a cluster of women held up their arms to him, some with bundles.
- I had told them they could have my trap to take them as far as the road went, because after that they had a long walk.
- At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap , came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
- Keep your trap shut .
- ...his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in)...
- I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.
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- The miners? grievances centred on the issue of the compulsory purchase of miners? licences and the harassment of raids by the licensing police, the ‘traps ,’ in search of unlicensed miners.
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- Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by ‘the traps ’ (the goldfield police).
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* snareDerived terms
* activity trap * beartrap/bear trap * betrap * booby trap * bus trap * firetrap * fish-trap * honey trap * mantrap * mousetrap * offside trap * optical trap * radar trap * rattletrap * speed trap * tourist trap * trapdoor * (l)Verb
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- I trapped the foe.
Etymology 2
(Trap rock) From (etyl) trapp, from .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* trappean * trappous * trappyEtymology 3
Akin to (etyl) .Verb
(trapp)- to deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed
- There she found her palfrey trapped / In purple blazoned with armorial gold.